English 10B Poetry Packet

NAME______ENGLISH 10B POETRY PACKET WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 – FRIDAY, MARCH 6 SCORE ______/ ______

Pg Under the red heading, Poetry and Music, What is a stanza? 628 Cornelius Eady says that a “poem is a human ______measure out in ______and What are lines? ______. Pg What is figurative language? Define simile: 630

Pg Define metaphor: Define personification: 630

Pg Define imagery: Define rhythm: 630

Pg Define meter: Define rhyme: 630

Pg Define rhyme scheme: Define alliteration: 630

Pg Define assonance: Define consonance: 630

Pg What is narrative poetry? What is an epic? 631

Pg What is a ballad? What is dramatic poetry? 631

Pg What is a lyric poem? Which is the most common type of poem in modern 631 literature? Pg What are the three types of poetry? How else can poems be categorized? 631

Pg Poems are defined by specific organizations of What is a haiku? 631 ______and ______length, ______, and ______.

Pg What is a tanka? What is free verse? 631

Pg What is a sonnet? What type of poetry would best fit the picture 631 on page 631? Why?

Pg Read page 632 After reading, complete this: Poets use self- 632 expression as a way to convey a message to their audience by ______. Pg Can you think of ONE song or dance that really Who can the speaker in a poem represent? 633 represents your generation? What is it?

Pg Read The Poetic Interpretation of The Twist After reading the poem, what does the 633 speaker say the reader is expecting to hear?

Pg In this poem, what is the speaker telling us If this were a short story or a poem, what 634 about his or her world? information would the bracketed stanzas provide?

Pg Look at lines 35-37, what are these lines telling Based on lines 35-37, what might the theme of 634 us? the poem be?

Pg Read The Empty Dance Shoes Define intertia: 635 Pg Look at the bracketed section. What can you Can you select an example of imagery in this 635 visualize when reading this? poem? Please list the line number and explain why.

Pg What line is repeated in this poem? Why do you think this line is repeated? 636

Pg What is the theme of this poem? Does Eady communicate something positive 636 about a pair of empty dance shoes? Explain.

Pg Which poem did you find more interesting? What is Eady trying to say about the twist? Was 637 Why? he successful? Why or why not?

Pg In which poem does the speakers personal life Can you find a metaphor in The Empty Dance 637 play a more significant role? Shoes that compares the shoes to other things? List them here.

Pg Define a speaker in poetry: 639

Pg What does the speaker in lyric poetry do? What does the speaker in narrative poetry do? 639

Pg One way to covey an emotion or communicate Define foreboding: 640 how you feel about something is to ______. Another might be to ______.

Pg Define tumult: Define monotonously: 640

Pg Define venerable: Define sullen: 640 Pg Define comrade: 640

Pg Who is Alexander Pushkin? Who is Federico Garcia Lorca? 641

Pg Who is Elizabeth Bishop? Who is Rudyard Kipling? 641

Pg The title of this poem is The Bridegroom. Predict what you think the story might be about? 642

Pg Who is Natasha? Lines 25-32 What do we find out in this stanza? 643

Pg Why do Natasha’s mother and father question What does Natasha respond? 643 her?

Pg What does the matchmaking woman tell Lines 57-64 How many sentences are there in this 644 Natasha’s parents? stanza of 8 lines?

Pg What does Natasha’s father tell her? Why do you think Natasha is crying? 644

Pg What does Natasha decide to do? What does the groom ask about Natasha? 645

Pg What does Natasha respond to him? What do you think happened in her dream? 645 Pg What do you feel about the details of Natasha’s What traits does this young woman in the 645 dream? painting seem to share with Natasha?

Pg Lines 161-168 What words help the narrative What was Natasha’s dream? 646 poem grow in excitement?

Pg Who does the ring belong to? Why was Natasha right to be afraid? 646

Pg What do you think the image of the man in the painting represents? 648

Pg Read The Guitar Lines 1-15 What line/words are repeated? Why? 649

Pg Is this poem a narrative or a lyric? Explain. What feelings do the speaker’s use of images in 649 lines 19-24 convey?

Pg Res The Fish What even triggers the speaker’s thought in this 650 poem?

Pg Does the fish look like the venerable old What details in the speaker’s conclusion provide 651 warrior described in the poem? a dramatic insight and a surprising action?

Pg Who is the man in the image? Read Danny Deever pg 653-654 Who are the 2 652 characters that speak in this poem?

Pg List 3 things in The Guitar for which The Guitar Choose one poem and explain if you believe it 654 weeps? serves a positive purpose. Explain.